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Life NCJW Campaigns for Inclusion of Women in Peace Talks
The exclusion of women’s voices, a phenomenon present in far too many educational, economic and political settings, has perhaps the most far-reaching consequences when it comes to issues of war and peace. Women, whose cultural heritage revolves around care, relationships, nurturing and interpersonal responsibility, have a vital perspective on armed conflict. Whereas men in power…
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The Schmooze University of Provence Disinvites Israeli Writer Esther Orner
The septuagenarian Israeli novelist and poetry translator Esther Orner would hardly seem threatening to anyone. Yet Orner, who has translated Yehuda Amichai and Aharon Shabtai into French, has become the center of a frantic dispute in France. The University of Provence, based in Aix-en-Provence and Marseilles, has just canceled a March 2011 colloquium, “Writing Today…
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Life Code Pink: Slinging Mud and Hate at Ahava
I sent Boychik off to his summer program in Israel with an extra $100 in his pocket and instructions to bring me back as much Ahava hand cream as that will buy. Ahava is my favorite — smells nice, absorbs quickly and does what it’s supposed to — but it’s too pricey here in the…
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The Schmooze CNN Fires Editor After Hezbollah Tweet
Accusations about media bias toward — or against — Israel have flown around since, well, 1948. But the side that claims Israel gets a raw deal scored a point yesterday when CNN’s senior editor of Mideast affairs was fired for a Twitter message praising a deceased Shiite cleric who encouraged suicide bombings. The New York…
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The Schmooze Tree Stalls Construction of Ashkelon Hospital Wing
Remember the controversy of the emergency room at Ashkelon’s Barzilai Hospital? It was a saga of politics, war and religion that just a few months ago looked as if it could destabilize Israel’s government. In 2008 engineers started preparing the ground for a new $120 million wing. It would have an underground bunker with wards…
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The Schmooze An Israeli Town’s Campaign To Rename Sodom Street
The residents of Ashkelon in Southern Israel like to think of themselves as good, upstanding folk. Which is why one local street sign has become a cause of great annoyance and embarrassment. For as long as most Ashkelon residents can remember, they have had a Sodom Street. Sodom, if you recall, was one of the…
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The Schmooze Jon Voight to Obama: You Lied to the Jewish People
Countless Americans and people around the globe criticize Obama daily (it’s part of the job). But it’s just something special when a major celebrity (and father of a an even more major celebrity) does it in ink. Jon Voight, actor and father of Angelina Jolie, attacked Obama’s treatment of Israel and Jews in an open…
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The Schmooze Israel and Turkey Tensions Affect Tourism
Post-flotilla, Turkey is seething at Israel and Israel is furious with Turkey. Friction between the two nation’s politicians is higher than ever, and in both countries shoppers are boycotting goods from the other (Turkish coffee is currently having a Freedom Fries moment in Israel). But there seems to be one winner in all the tension…
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